08-24-2020, 10:35 PM
Some disturbingly overly positive takes on THJ in the last day or two... I'll say it again - he is, along with DFS, a candidate for the 5th-best starter on a contending team. THJ gives a lot more offense, DFS much more defense and rebounding. In any event, he remains exorbitantly overpaid. For the Mavs to extend his contract within $5 mil/year of his current deal would be front office suicide, as the team needs two more high-quality starters, and you can't have $15 mil/year plus tied up in your fifth-best player. I will never see it as other than a nightmare if the Mavs extend him for more than $14 mil/year to start. $11 mil/year would be a lot more palatable.
I'm fine with him staying here. Keeping him at the expense of the improvements we desperately need to make is an over-my-dead-Mavs-fan-body proposition for me. If he opts into his player option (hard to imagine he doesn't), I want to see him traded for something better between then and the 2021 TDL, allowed to expire and create caproom, or re-signed on the cheap. Anything else is squandering Luka.
I'm fine with him staying here. Keeping him at the expense of the improvements we desperately need to make is an over-my-dead-Mavs-fan-body proposition for me. If he opts into his player option (hard to imagine he doesn't), I want to see him traded for something better between then and the 2021 TDL, allowed to expire and create caproom, or re-signed on the cheap. Anything else is squandering Luka.